Hi Thomas, Report and statistic engine will be an excellent addition. I envision it will be something that users can customised upon.
/chunsing On 16 Sep, 2014 5:28 pm, "Thomas King" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > we at DE-CIX think about adding new features to pmacct that are needed > from our side. As pmacct is open-source we would like to release our > additions as open-source as well. To assess if our features are of general > interest I would like to discuss our features with you. The questions for > us is here: Are the features we might add be supported by the community? > > We are thinking about adding features in the following categories: > - High availability: We would like to enhance pmacct in such a way that if > pmacct dies on one machine another will take over automatically. We assume > that existing open-source tools (e.g., heart-beat) can be combined with > pmacct in order to achieve this. > - Reconfiguration via API: As we want to use pmacct in a dynamic > environment we want to be able to change the configuration via an API > without restarting pmacct. > - Report and statistic engine: We would like to define a set of reports > (e.g., throughput in bits per seconds pro MAC address or interface) which > can be displayed on a website including fancy looking graphs. This will > probably not be included into pmacct directly instead it will be a > standalone tool that relies on pmacct. > - Notification: If a threshold is met we want to be informed by mail > (e.g., the throughput for an interface reaches a certain level we want to > receive a mail). This will probably not be included into pmacct directly > instead it will be a standalone tool that relies on pmacct. > > I am aware that these feature descriptions are somewhat high-level. We > already created a more detailed technical description of what we need to > add to pmacct so that it fits our requirements. We will share this list > later but we do not want to steer the discussion to much in one direction. > > Any feedback to our ideas is highly appreciated! > > Best regards, > Thomas > > -- > Dr. Thomas King > Manager Research & Development > > DE-CIX Management GmbH | Lindleystraße 12 | 60314 Frankfurt am Main | > Germany | www.de-cix.net > Phone +49 69 1730902 87 | Mobile +49 175 1161428 | Fax +49 69 4056 2716 | > [email protected] > Geschaeftsfuehrer Harald A. Summa | Registergericht AG Koeln HRB 51135 > > > _______________________________________________ > pmacct-discussion mailing list > http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists >
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